美索不达米亚

PARIS – The Lion of Mesopotamia crawled out of a hole in the ground this week, looking docile and disheveled as a doctor prodded him with a tongue depressor.

巴黎——美索不达米亚之狮这周从地底的洞里钻了出来，当一个医生用压舌板探伸到它嘴里时，它看上去温顺而颓然。

He was a fierce opponent of the neoconservatives who thought they could transplant American values into Mesopotamia.

他是新保守主义者的劲敌，这些人认为他们能够把美国价值观移植到美索不达米亚。

From ancient Mesopotamia to today's vineyards, the eternal enemies include fungus and bugs, extreme heat and unseasonable cold.

从古代的美索不达米亚到现在的葡萄种植园，他们对抗的永久敌人包括：真菌，小虫，酷热和不合时宜寒冷。

Such sayings themselves grow harder and adhere more firmly with age, and it would take many blows with a trowel to clean an old wiseacre of them.

美索不达米亚的许多村子都是用从巴比伦废墟里拣来的质地很好的旧砖头造的，它们上面的水泥也许更老，也该更牢啦。

Like the earlier kings of Akkad, the rulers of the Third Dynasty of Ur had to fight with groups of people moving into Mesopotamia from the surrounding mountains and deserts, attracted by the wealth of the country.

像早期的阿卡得国王一样，乌尔第三王朝的统治者不得不与一群群被国土的财富所吸引，从周围山脉和沙漠迁移到美索不达米亚的人交战。

Uruk played a very important part in the political history of the country from an early time, exercising hegemony in Sumer before the time of Sargon of Akkad.

在早期的历史上，乌鲁克在国家政治上扮演着重要的角色，早于阿卡得的萨尔贡时期，就在美索不达米亚担当霸权的角色。

Enlil then sent against Naram-Sin a people from the mountains bordering Mesopotamia who, we are told, destroyed the capital Akkad.

恩利尔从美索不达米亚的山区边境派遣了一个人来反对那拉姆-辛。我们被告知，他摧毁了首都阿卡得。

Akkad was a city and its region of northern Mesopotamia, situated on the left bank of the Euphrates, between Sippar and Kish located in present-day Iraq, ca. 50 km south-west of the center of Baghdad, 33.1?

阿卡德是一座城市，位于美索不达米亚北部地区，座落在幼发拉底河的左岸，位于西帕尔和吉什之间（今天的伊拉克，巴格达西南方，离市中心有50公里）。

He was a specialist in herbal remedies, and in older treatments of Mesopotamian medicine was frequently called "physician" because he dealt in what were often classifiable as empirical applications of medication.

他是草药治疗方面的一位专家，在美索不达米亚的医药治疗里面，通常被称为是一位&医师&，因为他通常是处理有关分门别类方面的东西，就像医药的临床应用一样。

In his book Illness and Health Care in the Ancient Near East: the Role of the Temple in Greece, Mesopotamia, and Israel, Hector Avalos states that not only were the temples of Gula sites for the diagnosis of illness (Gula was consulted as to which god was responsible for a given illness), but that these temples were also libraries that held many useful medical texts.

Hector Avalos在他的书《古代近东的疾病与治疗：希腊、美索不达米亚和以色列的庙宇角色》中陈述，庙宇里的古拉不仅仅是坐着诊断疾病（古拉是用作询问哪一位神为哪种疾病而负责），而且这些庙宇还是图书馆，藏有许多有用的医学文献。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。